Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 125 min
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- France, Italy
Why tonight?
- In Italian — subtitles on.
The story
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
- immigrant
- death sentence
- anarchist
- electric chair
- true crime
- red scare
- miscarriage of justice
- courtroom drama
- anarchism
- italian immigrant
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gian Maria Volonté
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Riccardo Cucciolla
Nicola Sacco
Cyril Cusack
Frederick Katzmann
Rosanna Fratello
Rosa Sacco
- Geoffrey Keen — Judge Webster Thayer
- Milo O'Shea — Fred Moore
- William Prince — William Thompson
- Claude Mann — Eddie
- Edward Jewesbury — Alvan T. Fuller
- Armenia Balducci — Virginia Vanzetti
- Valentino Orfeo — Celestino Madeiros
- Pier Giovanni Anchisi — Defense Committee member
- Desmond Perry — Lieutenant
- John Harvey — Minister Palmer
- Felicity Mason
- Directed
- Giuliano Montaldo
- Written
- Mino Roli, Giuliano Montaldo, Fabrizio Onofri
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 217 ratings
- Studio
- Theatre Le Rex, Jolly Film, Unidis
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
